Gene editing in the womb could be more effective than the same treatment after birth, as it is easier to deliver the ...

Though he doesn't remember it, Branden Baptiste had his first sickle cell crisis at age 2. Through elementary school, he was ...

According to the therapist, IVF can lead to a range of complications, including disabilities and premature births. Some ...

In videos posted online, scientist He Jiankui defended what he claimed to have achieved, saying he had performed the embryonic gene editing to help protect the babies born this month from ...

There's no way to treat it. In principle, CRISPR, the gene-editing technique that enables scientists to easily make very ...

A research group led by Jacob Corn has just discovered that the use of AZD7648 has serious side effects. The study has just ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration has just approved the first-ever clinical trial that uses CRISPR-Cas13 RNA ...

‘Cutting edge’ is, for once, a truly apt description when it comes to gene editing – both because the field is pushing medicine into areas we might never have dreamed possible, and because ...

We all need to eat, but the impact of the climate crisis on our crops is throwing the world's food supply into question.

Gene therapy and gene editing are on the cutting edge of modern biotechnology. Gene therapies are used to correct genetic abnormalities by introducing genetic material at a cellular level and can ...

Investors often like to be on the cutting edge of new developments, and it doesn't get much more cutting edge than gene therapy and editing. The ability to make changes to a person's DNA – the ...

Sites in Los Angeles and near San Francisco California are enrolling people with severe SCD for a trial to test a gene ...